haha, 10ghash for $300

butterflylabs sets a fine suggested retail price

that gizmodo article is wrong, you wouldn't break even ever (unless you found some bigger sucker to buy it used for around same price).  30 years?  pfft

Uh, do you live on Planet Earth?

"If you want to buy Bitcoin hardware through Walmart, your options are limited. That is to say, you can buy a 10GH/s Butterfly Labs miner (on sale!) for $300. Sweet deal right? Not so much. With the difficultly of mining Bitcoin increasing exponentially—by design—miner machines have to increase in power to keep up. 10GH/s, at this stage in the game, is nothing. So if you see fit to invest in this little sucker, you can expect to break even in around 30 years, given the current exchange rate and the average cost of electricity.

It's basically a little black hole for your money."

Guessing you can't buy them with Bitcoin? Don't know which is better though. Buying with Bitcoin or Fiat. Fiat is just paper, and rarely increases. But that money in Bitcoin would be a huge lost.

Looks like you're actually buying from tiger direct, if you order through this route. I don't think it's really Walmart that you are buying from. I don't mine but I guess it's still decently good news...

It doesn't help when this forum carries advertisements proclaiming that "there has never been a better time to invest in mining".


Shameful.

There are going to be a lot of disappointed early adopters when they cannot mine anything

Selling obsolete equipment for inflated prices from a crooked company? ha ha?